Prehistoric Humans

Earliest Humans And The Paleolithic Age

Hominid: Like creatures that walked upright.

Earliest Hominid: Australopithecines. means Southern ape.

Lucy was alive 4-5 million years ago in East Africa.

Started in Africa about 4 million years ago.

A lot of skeletons have been found by archeologists and archaeologists.

Lucy was very short.

Lucy's brain was the same size as apes brains are now

People found some of Lucy's footprints in the 1950-1960.

Laetoli footprints were also found in the 1950s-1960s.

Homo Habilis means handy man

They used crude stone tools.

2.4 million years ago in East Africa.

Homo Erectus means upright man

1.5 million years ago in East Africa

Controlled fire and used stone tools.

Larger Brains

Migrated out of Africa

Number 1

Number 2

Number 3

Number 4

Today all humans belong to this hominid group.

The first anatomically modern humans.

use modern tools and languages

Homo Sapiens means wise man 200,00 years ago in Africs

Number 5

Paleolithic age means old stone age

FIRE was a big part of the palethoic age.

people and enviroment

gender roles in paleolithic age

began 2.5 million years ago ntil about 8000 bc

Time when people used stone to make tools and weapons

Paleolthic people live as nomads

They traveled in groups of 20 to 30 people and survived by hunting and gathering.

as hunter-gathers the search of food dominated paleotic peoples lives

women were primary gathers who obtained berries, nuts, roots, and grains

men were primarily the hunters who followed the large animals and brought food back to camp.

many historians believe that there was equality between men and women due to the fact that both played important roles in obtaining food.

TECNOLOGY

people created axes spears bows and arrows in the stone age

inventing technology helped paleotheilithic people to adjust to the environment.

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